Playing Russian Roulette With the Building Blocks of Life
A country-rap saga for all those who breathe.
Michael Grant White – Optimal Breathing (c) 2006
Permission to copy and use for any worthwhile purpose given gladly if you mention the author and Optimal Breathing.
I would love for someone to put this to music and also a cartoonist to make a picture of their version of "Gene". PLEASE send me your thoughts or suggestions to genetic@breathing.com
Honoring the millions of people wishing full disclosure regarding any genetic engineering that affects their food.
The audience sings the chorus:
"Playing Russian Roulette
with the building blocks of life."
Monsanto got together cuzz they saw the need. Of billions of hungry mouths to feed.
Their Boardroom wants that all be fed, but does it in a way that fills me with me dread.
They made some pesticides and seeds, killed bugs better and shrunk most weeds.
Genetic engineering grew from that, and soon came fat that had no fat.
They bend the rules and I’m afraid, that the profit motive is why they play.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Another goal at dear Monsanto, making bigger lungs to sing bell canto?
Smaller stomachs?, bigger livers?, .........engineering organ-givers?
“We made this food, we worked so hard, and don’t forget to sign our organ donor card.”
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Some folks believe it’s a natural lie, to create a food that just won’t die.
If it kills a Monarch butterfly, then maybe it’ll mess with you and I.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
There is a man who drives a plow, you should see what he looks like NOW.
Our gentle feller stands awful strange, spent lots of time home on the range.
He's often called a gene machine, so we named him genetically engineered Gene.
He’s now got lips where he had a brow, his horse don’t know him, nor does his cow.
He's long since lost the reason how, looks a little too fondly at his neighbors sow.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
He sprayed and sprayed his pesticide, And it sure did make those ole weeds die.
The crops, well they got bigger, stronger, but Gene’s nose and ears got wider and longer.
When he sings to genetically engineered Gina, he plays a fourteen finger concertina.
Corn, potatoes grew their own bug killer, when you eat with Gene, dinner’s really a thriller.
Stuff in your corn fights you for your food, And you ought to see Gene when he’s in the nude.
Gina begs Gene on her achy knees, “pass the grits and chemotherapy please.”
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Better memorize Glufosinate, it’s a name that you may learn to hate
Feed this stuff to a growing fetus, something quite unhealthy is apt to greet us.
There are other forms of self abuse, you can slit your wrists or use a noose.
Take a walk in a park begging for a thug,,,, or eat a “food” that can kill a bug.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Enough food stronger than any weed killer, your brain won’t know chocolate from vaniller.
Soy beans, spuds, fast food and grits, will my veggies some day give me fits?
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Did Monsanto/Du Pont have to play, with their buddies from the AMA?
Bend the rules from natural laws, help MD folk use drugs and saws.
"Organ damage or mutated growth, we have one now, but why not both?
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Hey, let’s research their deepest wish, to turn a bagel into a fish.
Let’s open up a Pandora’s box, make redwood trees into pickled lox.
“Trust us” says Dupont's good ole boys, while they turn our bodies into toys.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
So you’d better speak and have your say, or risk a wake up call some day.
And notice you’ve grown a second gut, with your lungs and heart where was your butt.
(fade out slowly)
Playing Russian Roulette
with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with the building blocks of life.
Playing Russian Roulette with your family, future and life.
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